While the backlogs at SSA continue to grow, I can honestly say that their online services have drastically improved over the last decade and are extremely user-friendly.
If SSA gives you the option to use their online services, take advantage of it. It will certainly save you a lot of time and energy. SSA seems to process paper forms MUCH slower than they do materials that are submitted online. If you take the initiative and file for disability or retirement benefits online, you can drastically reduce the waiting time.
I certainly hope that SSA continues to add more electronic services to their technological arsenal. Heck, I would even be fine with them replacing their employees with robots at this point if it meant cutting down the ridiculous backlog and expediting deserving claimants’ cases 😊.
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